The US has the highest gun violence in the Western/First world, not the world. There are various countries in Latin America, Africa, the Philippines, and perhaps Russia with a higher gun crime or murder rate.

The insecurity of many American men. The Wild West myth that forgets the people who protected entire towns by making visitors surrender their guns. Films full of gun violence. The propaganda from the National Rifle Association. Violence against women is rampant. People being outright assholes anywhere you live, but more likely to take action because a gun seems quick and clean with no consequences. They're too easy to use. You have a gun in your house and US stats are that you are far more likely to use that gun against a person in your home than you are to be against somebody else. Easy way to kill yourself too.

Dividing people by race and ethnicity rather than acknowledging that most of our problems come from class divisions.

We have a lot of people right now who think it's okay to just self-destruct and take 5 or 10 or 50 or 100+ people along with them. You almost think there must be something in the water. Like it's a way to have fame or it's their right to just kill off people because they are displeased with life and so what, heh?

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One point id like to make is america has a lot of mental illnesses. Many of these people possessing them will never speak up because then they will be treated like an inmate. Someone i know is suffering with severe psychopathy and i can tell one day theyre going to snap. It's hard to watch after you fall in love with this type of person. When they do snap, they are going to use weapons, obviously guns. However, these guns, from what i hear, are not going to be from america so dont tell me it's because of americas amount of guns.

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I’m not sure that is an accurate statistic, but if it were, it would be because we have a lot of people and guns. It’s much like having more drowning deaths near bodies of water.

People still drown when there isn’t a nearby body of water (bathtubs, pools, etc.) but obviously, the more exposure/risk, the higher the likelihood of [insert almost anything here ].

I assume you mean in the DEVELOPED WORLD?
It's because we have a lot of gangs.
Pretty much 90% of gun violence is committed with illegally obtained guns (many brought in from Mexico) and with gang wars (Chicago, St. Louis, other democrat cities).